The reasons for which Chesapeake was founded was much more economical in purpose. The Chesapeake region included both East and West New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. While New England was established on the idea of religious refuge, Chesapeake Bay was founded on the idea of making a profit. The Virginia Company of London was the first joint-stock company to travel to America. After learning stories of prosperity that the Spanish found in South America the Virginia Company investors thought it would be easy to find gold if they started a new settlement also. In 1607, 144 English boys and men settled the Jamestown colony, named after King James I. The first Virginians landed thirteen years ahead of the Pilgrims landing in Massachusetts. …show more content…
The effects of geography and climate had an immensely opposite reaction. New England was much rockier and had many more hills in comparison to the Chesapeake region with its flat tidal areas and rich fertile soil. This affected the economic formation for both regions. One of the more defining features of the southern Chesapeake colonies was its warm climate in comparison to the cold climate in the New England colonies. This Warm Climate allowed for a longer growing season which led the Chesapeake economy to become more agriculturally dependent. It also granted diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, and malaria to run ramped. Half the people born in early Virginia and Maryland did not live to be older than twenty years old. But while Chesapeake was dealing with a harsh climate, New England reaped the benefits of cooler temperatures and cleaner water that prevented the spread of fatal diseases. In New England, however, the soil was rockier and the growing season was much shorter, so while settlers did have farms, they did not produce on the level of the large southern plantations. The economy in the north was more diversified. Coastal areas and rivers allowed shipping and fishing industries to flourish, while abundant forests helped develop the timber trade. Trappers and hunters searched for furs and game that moved into the wildlife-rich areas of New
The seventeenth century was a time of great change in colonial America. Virginia, the first colony in the Chesapeake region, was established in 1624. Plymouth, the first colony in New England, was established in 1620. These two regions developed in distinct ways, but were intertwined because of their ties to England. The Chesapeake colonies were established for economic reasons, as the Virginia Company of London looked to mass-produce cash crops in the new world.
The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent, but by 1700, they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently, mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion, their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homeland: England, each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies.
The Crusades of the middle ages introduced much innovative and formerly unheard of merchandise into Western Europe; however the scarcity of these luxury goods instilled Europeans with drive to find easier access to the Far East. Although desired "Northwest Passage" never was found, joint-stock companies, like the Virginia Company of London, settled colonies in the New World for untapped resources such as silver and other tradable goods. Many more corporations followed suit, settling mainly in the Chesapeake Bay area, their small settlements eventually developing into the Chesapeake colonies. The Chesapeake colonies were focused primarily on profitable enterprises. At the same time, the New England colonies were being settled with a whole different set of initiatives, principally religious freedoms and family. Governing bodies were established, with their success dependent on the quality of the settlers the colony attracted. The different motives for settlement affected the routine events in such a way that the New England and Chesapeake colonies differed very greatly from one another even though they were both mainly settled by the English.
The socio-economic in the Chesapeake consist of the plantation which farmed the cash crop of the Chesapeake. Tobacco, wheat, and rice was the cash crop that made the Chesapeake very wealthy. Along with the plantation that also had indentured servitude and later on they would have slavery to take place of indentured servants. The New England colonies socio-economic characteristics included agriculture, a diversified economy, and a social structure that set it apart from the Chesapeake.
...le and Northern colonies, the Southern rivers did not freeze, therefore commerce was year round. The flip side to having a warm climate, is the increase in growth of bacteria and disease. Consequently, the Southern colonists faced a shorter life span. Women were often left widows leaving them the rights to their husbands' estate. Therefore, women had the opportunity and position to have more power. As a result of this warmer area, agriculture shaped the plantation colonies.
During the 1700's, people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England area possessed a very happy and healthy life. This high way of living was due in part to better farming, a healthier environment, and a high rate of production because of more factories. The colonists of the Chesapeake Bay region, on the other hand, led harder lives compared to that of the colonists of New England. The Chesapeake Bay had an unhealthy environment, bad eating diets, and intolerable labor.
A community is a group of people who work together towards a common goal and share a common interest. Lack of such a quality can and most likely will cause a struggling town or city to fall into the extremes of poverty and wealth. The New England community was so strong and so supportive in comparison to that of the Chesapeake Bay, that it is no wonder they developed into two distinctly different cultures before the year 1700. The Chesapeake region developed into a land of plantations and money-driven owners, with the elite wealthy, almost no middle class, and those in poverty creating the population. New England, on the other hand, had developed into a religion and family based society comprised of mostly middle class families by 1700. Looking at the terrain, ethic, government, and even the people themselves, reveals clues about how the drastic split in society came to be. It was one America, but two distinct societies had developed in it by the 1700's.
First, the inhabitants of the New England area were far healthier. Their clean water supply was a sharp contrast to the contaminated waters of Chesapeake Bay. Air was also fresh and clean in New England. Chesapeake Bay colonists were plagued by disease due to their unsanitary way of life, and New Englanders could expect ten extra years of life because of migrating there in fact, on average, they lived to be nearly 70, close to the same life expectancy as today.
In the period between the parts of 17th century and 18th century, in which most of the European countries were so anxious to proceed in their present condition of colonizing states inside the recently discovered Americas. One specific European country that had an mapped out system that unmistakably conveyed many gatherings to a large portion of the parts of eastern drift particularly two sections known as Chesapeake and New England. It is important that there was a scramble and a surge in an offer to vanquish whatever number countries as could reasonably be expected because of the advantages that would bring about the procedure. Accordingly in the late 1700's the two countries that were vanquished by England later signed up to be one country.The distinctions that existed between these two countries really show the principle motivation behind why England chose to colonize
May 24 1607, English Ships filled with one hundred and five men and boys set say for the new land at Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia Company of London sent them on a trip to find a new colony and trading route. They built their settlement and called it Jamestown.
Throughout the late 16th century and into the 17th century two colonies appeared from England. In search of glory, gold, and God (religious freedom), England started to discover and surmount North America. The two colonies were called the Chesapeake and the New England colonies. Although the areas were governed by the English, the settlements had similar potential as well as different. The Chesapeake and England colonies cultivated into visibly different establishments. The difference was the colonial motive, religion, political structure, socio-economic, and race relation, these are what were accountable for creating these territories. In the Chesapeake, the motivation for colonization was mainly due to the economic issue that the colony was
As colonies of the British Empire, both the New England and Chesapeake regions were inhibited by innumerable immigrants of English origin. Despite this common characteristic, the two areas greatly differed from each other. New England was more tolerant and community based whereas the Chesapeake was focused more directly on personal wealth and land. While they both drew from British influence, the distinct conditions in each region caused them to develop separately and become unique in their own way.
Many differences characterize the four regions of the English Settlements including the reason for establishment, and the resources within the colony. The reason for establishment varies between the colonies, as the colonists varied in their intentions for settlement. The Southern Colonies were established to seek natural resources and to seek wealth thus raised funds “to send indentured servants and slaves to farm: rice, indigo, and tobacco” (notes from class) were provided, while the New England colony were established for spirituality reasons and to glorify God. In comparison, the Middle Colonies were established as a way for people of diverse cultures to settle down, and the backcountry was established as a place for families, Germans, and Scottish- Irish people to live within. Another difference amongst the colonies was the resources they had that provided the economy and the people with economically viable goods. The New England Colonies were centered on the industry of
...ere more concerned about the commonwealth of the people due to their strong sense of community. Chesapeake government placed a harsh rule to ensure the survival of the settlers like the colony of Jamestown. New England had a diverse product due to poor soil and cold weather. They engaged in small scale agriculture, fishing, trading and shipbuilding. The Chesapeake regions had a warmer climate therefore it was more suitable to farm. The economic products that the Chesapeake region produced were tobacco and rice. The New England colonies were more of a community than the Chesapeake colonies. One of the reasons was that the settlers New England emigrated as a family and the Chesapeake emigrants were mostly males with the ambition to find gold and to own a large plantation; this resulted in mostly male population without female to enforce a sense of a real community.
The Chesapeake region of the colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the New Jerseys (both East and West) and Pennsylvania. In 1607, Jamestown, the first English colony in the New World (that is, the first to thrive and prosper), was founded by a group of 104 settlers to a peninsula along the James River. These settlers hoped to find gold, silver, a northwest passage to Asia, a cure for syphilis, or any other valuables they might take back to Europe and make a profit. Lead by Captain John Smith, who "outmaneuvered other members of the colony's ruling and took ruthlessly took charge" (Liberty Equality Power, p. 57), a few lucky members of the original voyage survived. These survivors turned to the local Powhatan Indians, who taught them the process of corn- and tobacco-growing. These staple-crops flourished throughout all five of these colonies.